2. The reason or account to be given of the place assigned to our admirals
in the Act of Precedence?
3. Whether any of the considerable families of our nobility or gentry have
been raised by the sea?
4. Some instances of the greatest ransoms heretofore set upon prisoners of
greatest quality.
5. The descent and posterity of Sir Francis Drake; and what estate is now
in the possession of any of his family derived from him.